Floriental

While we respectfully choose to call them "spicy florals, " the fragrance family combining floral notes with the dark woods, spices and resins that distinguish are so popular as to be nearly ubiquitous. But with Comme des Garçons, there's always a twist, and so this release from the avant garde Japanese/French fashion stalwart, has chosen as its floral of note the Cistus flower- a flower without a scent. And so, this is a postmodern floral, one where the sweet, lush, peppery aspects of flowers are created from plum, pink pepper, and sandalwood, and where labdanum- the rich resin that's the true fragrant bounty of the cistus bush- forms the basis of this complex perfume. And in the modern, mischievous style of Comme des Garçons, it's even nontraditional in structure- without classically defined top, heart and base notes, the fragrance evolves in unpredictable waves, trading off between lush fruitiness, resinous woods and fiery spice with delightful frequency, resulting in a scent that wears differently each time. At once layered and unstructured, simple and modern, masculine and feminine, this scent is a landscape of wonderful contradiction, with a single exception- it's 100% CDG.

Pink pepper, plum, incense, labdanum, sandalwood, vetiver